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Spotlight on SAMURAI SAGA with Grady Hendrix
Spotlight on SAMURAI SAGA with Grady Hendrix
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In the following introduction recorded in 2021, critic Grady Hendrix explores Hiroshi Inagaki’s swooningly romantic, boisterously comic, and rapturously colorful SAMURAI SAGA, an adaptation of “Cyrano de Bergerac” that gave Toshiro Mifune one of his finest roles.
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